Living in 3-D: Not a Big Deal? New Video Explains Why It’s a VERY Big Deal

astigmatism, athletes, awareness, body parts, cars, consciousness, cornea, curvature, emergence, Engineering, eyeglasses, headlights, hearing, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, lens, prescription, proprioception, purpose, routine tasks, Secrets of the Human Body, Steve Laufmann, street, three dimensions, vision, walking, Your Amazing Body
Living in three dimensions is crucial not only for athletes, who excel at exploiting the body’s abilities, but for any one of us walking down the street. Source
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Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble 

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While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Source
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From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

"survival of the fittest", biology, cell's, Chance & Necessity, CRISPRs, Daniel Witt, Evolution “On Purpose”, Faith & Science, final causality, foxes, hares, integrons, Intelligent Design, internal regulatory control networks, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, Philosophy of Science, purpose, retroposons, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons
I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Source
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Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

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Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Source
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Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

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David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Source
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The End of the Machine Metaphor? 

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Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Source
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